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The light bulb guys stopped by my house, and replaced 32 incandescent bulbs with energy-conserving fluorescents. They seemed to be feeling pretty good about themselves. And now, my house is aglow with a fluorescent haze that works better in some rooms than in others. As you may recall, New York City’s utility company, fearing another…

Send in your own religious family history and I’ll try to post it. Here are a few of the family religious histories I’ve received so far. Says reader 360: “Well, my ‘rents were non-practicing Catholics…Even now I dislike Christianity and find Buddhism more relevant and refreshingly non-divisive. So I guess I am planting a new…

A good book to break open for Valentine’s Day is David Deida’s “Finding God Through Sex,” with a forward by Ken Wilber. Here’s a minute sampling: “Sex can offer an openness that washes your heart wide to God, and yet sex is also where your tightest fears can hold you back.” Ain’t it the truth?…

Spiritual powerhouse Caroline Myss, author of “Why People Don’t Heal and How They Can,” and most recently, “Entering the Castle: An Inner Path to God and Your Soul,” is on a sweeping speaking tour through Chicago, New York, Boston, Washington D.C., Phoenix, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, Denver, Philadelphia, and Tampa. I highly advise you…

New to Newsweek’s website is an article about Hillary Clinton’s religious roots and her lifelong relationship with Rev. Don Jones, a Methodist minister. Jones describes Hillary’s beliefs as falling, like her politics, somewhere in the middle of the spectrum. Unlike the extreme left, she understands the limitations of human beings, he says. And unlike the…

I’m eating up Dr. Joseph Mercola’s emailed healthy living video newsletters. He is certainly a man on a mission. Last week he reported from the beaches of Maui on fish oils and vitamin D. This week, he’s standing in a grocery store, revealing just how much corn syrup is in most commercial juice products. Here’s…

Hey, this would make a sexy Valentine’s Day gift: two two-ounce “Eros” bars of organic, dairy-free Dagoba Chocolate alongside something I’ve never heard of: a two-ounce “cacao elixir” (flavored with botanical infusions) that dispenses drops of cacao on your tongue to awaken “your passion” (whatever that is). It’s all included in the Eros gift bag.…

You may know that your Grandpa Frank hailed from Missouri, or that your Great Aunt Angie cooked Italian, but do you know your religious genealogy? Have you researched the religious beliefs and development of your forebears? I’d love to get a good conversation going on this. It is great fun to interview relatives to get…

A contractor for ConEd, the utility company here, called last Friday offering to come to my home and replace all my light bulbs with compact fluorescent bulbs to assist New York City in its efforts to conserve energy. “Every bulb in the house?” I asked incredulously. “Yes, every bulb in the house. And these fluorescent…

February 8th is “Nirvana Day,” a Mahayana Buddhist festival day in commemoration of the death of the Buddha. Gautama is said to have spoken these last words to his students before expiring at age eighty: “Now, monks, I declare to you, all conditioned things are of a nature to decay. Strive on untiringly!” The Paranibbana…
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